Tim Bell (computer scientist)

Tim Bell
Residence New Zealand
Education Nelson College
Alma mater University of Canterbury
Awards SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education
Scientific career
Fields computer science education, computer music and text compression
Thesis A unifying theory and improvements for existing approaches to text compression (1986)
Doctoral advisor John Penny

Timothy Clinton Bell is a New Zealand computer scientist, with interests in computer science education, computer music and text compression. In 2017, it was announced by SIGCSE that Bell would receive the 2018 award for 'Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education'.[1][2]

Bell was educated at Nelson College from 1975 to 1979.[3] After completing his PhD at the University of Canterbury, with a thesis titled A unifying theory and improvements for existing approaches to text compression, he joined the staff and rose to professor and head of department.

In parallel with his academic work he has developed Computer Science Unplugged, a system of activities for teaching computer science without computers.[4] The system was actively promoted by Google in 2007.[5]

Selected works

  • Text compression Timothy C Bell, John G Cleary and I H Witten. Prentice Hall, 1990. ISBN 0139119914
  • Witten, Ian H.; Moffat, Alistair; Bell, Timothy Clinton (1999). Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and indexing documents and images (2 ed.). Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. ISBN 978-1-55860-570-1. 1558605703.
  • A corpus for the evaluation of lossless compression algorithms Timothy C Bell. Data Compression Conference 1997
  • The challenge of optical music recognition David Bainbridge and Timothy C Bell. Computers and the Humanities, 2001.

References

  1. ↑ "SIGCSE 2018 Award Winners". Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "UC academic Tim Bell to receive international award for Computer Science Education". University of Canterbury (News). Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006, 6th edition (CD-ROM).
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 October 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070823152554/http://www.google.com/educators/activities.html


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